The fact that a corporate website has been hacked is not new. Last year, a friend who does foreign trade had his website hacked, and when customers visited, the browser popped up a warning saying it was a malicious website.The brand's trustworthiness plummeted to the bottom.

The reason why websites are hacked is mostly due to CMS security vulnerabilities.WordPress is the most popular CMS globally, and it is reported that there are a large number of security vulnerabilities every year.Plugin vulnerabilities, theme vulnerabilities, core vulnerabilities, hard to prevent.

So when choosing a CMS, security should be the top priority. No matter how powerful the features are or how good the interface looks, if the security is not up to standard, everything is in vain.

Security design approach of Anqi CMS

AnQi CMS considers security from the bottom of the architecture. It is developed based on GoLang, and the Go language itself has advantages in memory and concurrency safety over PHP.Go's compiler catches many potential security issues at compile time, which PHP can only detect at runtime.

The security protection of AnQi CMS is divided into three layers: JWT authentication, content filtering, and anti-capture interference code. These three layers are not external, but hardcoded in the code.

The first layer: JWT authentication

JWT (JSON Web Token) is currently a mainstream authentication method.The AnQi CMS uses JWT for backend login authentication, and each request will verify the validity of the Token.Compared to traditional Session authentication, JWT does not require the server to store session information, it is better in performance, and also higher in security.

The Token has an expiration time, the default is 24 hours. After expiration, you need to log in again. Moreover, the Token is encrypted, and the difficulty of counterfeiting is very high.

Second layer: content filtering

XSS (Cross-site Scripting) is one of the most common attack methods for corporate websites.An attacker injects malicious scripts through a form, and the script will execute when other users visit a page containing the script.轻度弹出广告，严重则窃取用户Cookie.

The Anqi CMS is built-in with content filtering mechanisms. All user input content will be filtered, and dangerous codes such as script tags, event handlers, etc., will be automatically filtered out.This filter is enforced on the backend, and it will also be escaped twice during the frontend template rendering.

The third layer: Anti-interference code for data collection

Website content being maliciously scraped is also a headache for enterprises. Some crawler programs will大量抓取your content and then publish it on their own websites.Search engines may consider your content to be plagiarized, leading to a decrease in weight.

The Anqi CMS is built with anti-crawling interference codes. The interference code is embedded in the page, which is imperceptible to normal users browsing, but it will interfere with web crawlers, reducing the efficiency of data collection.By coordinating dynamic timestamps and random parameters, it can effectively prevent the batch scraping of automated tools.

Comparison with WordPress

The security mechanism of WordPress itself is relatively simple.The core code has some basic security handling, but many security features need to be implemented with plugins.Common security plugins include Wordfence, Sucuri, and others.

The more plugins, the greater the risk of security vulnerabilities. Because each plugin is a potential attack vector.WordPress has a vast ecosystem of plugins, many of which have security vulnerabilities.This is the 'bucket effect'——the level of safety depends on the weakest plug-in.

The Aanqi CMS is different. All security features are built-in and no additional plugins need to be installed.This means there is no risk of "third-party code introduction vulnerability".The code is less and the attack surface is smaller.

Selection recommendation

If your corporate website involves the following scenarios, security is a top priority:

  • Corporate service platform for user registration and login
  • E-commerce websites with online transaction functions
  • Website for storing user data of government or educational institutions
  • Corporate website with high brand awareness and easy to become a target of attacks

In this case, it is recommended to prioritize a system with more thorough safety design.The code layer security protection of Anqi CMS, combined with the advantage of low memory usage, is a good choice for enterprise users.

FAQ

Q: Is a Go language CMS always more secure?

A: Absolute is not. Any system has the possibility of being broken into.But Go language has an inherent advantage in memory and concurrency safety, and with the triple protection built into Anqi CMS, the overall security level is indeed higher than the WordPress + plugin method.

How to ensure that CMS security patches are updated in a timely manner?

A: The Anqi CMS has an active development team, and vulnerability repairs and version updates are relatively timely.There are updates for both the open-source and commercial versions. It is recommended to upgrade to the latest version regularly and not to update for a long time.

Is there a third-party security test report?

A: Please pay attention to the official announcements of AnQi CMS and the Issue of GitHub/Gitee repository, where all security vulnerability repairs will be disclosed.Commercial users can also contact the team to obtain a specialized security assessment report.